[rhn-users] login hanging

[Clinton Fernandes]

re-booting did the trick.

auditd isn't running (it's an unrecognized service!) and /var/ isn't full
though, so I am not sure what caused the problem.

Thanks for your help!

-- 
          my tail is dun.


Quoting "Kueffer, Walter K (PIP - San Diego)" <wk at hp.com>:

> Once you get in, check to see if auditd is running.  
> 
> I had a similar problem on a system of mine because the auditd was
> filling up /var.  Once /var was filled, samba, nfs, etc. continued
> functioning but you could not login to the system (even at the console).
> 
> Walter
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
> On Behalf Of Pete Masse
> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 9:53 AM
> To: Red Hat Network Users List
> Subject: Re: [rhn-users] login hanging
> 
> 
> I've had this problem before.  Portmap had crashed.  If I could get into
> it, 
> restarting portmap solved the problem, otherwise a reboot solved it.
> 
> Pete
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Clinton Fernandes" <cfernand at utm.utoronto.ca>
> To: <rhn-users at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 10:37 AM
> Subject: [rhn-users] login hanging
> 
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm having a pretty strange problem that will likely turn into a general
> 
> panic
> if I can't resolve it soon.
> 
> Over the weekend one of my servers became unlog-into-able.
> When I enter my password the system just hangs and doesn't respond.
> 
> I have tried this over SSH as well as at the console, with 3 different 
> logins.
> 
> This particularly server is an NIS, samba and NFS server, and all three 
> services
> are working properly. That is, I can log into my NIS clients just fine,
> and access the NFS shares.
> 
> I have run out of ideas before I even had any on how to fix this.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Clint.
> 
> -- 
>           my tail is dun.
> 
> 
> 
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